Of course, it's directed by someone else. #Michael the brave movieMan, didn't guys like Mihai or William Wallace ever had the slightest trace of egocentrism ? In that respect, there is another movie about Mihai Viteazul, called Buzduganul Cu Trei Peceti (The Mace With Three Seals), in which the hero actually has feelings, flaws and fears. On the other side, as in every portrayal of a legendary figure, the hero hasn't the least of flaws: he is always brave (actually Mihai Viteazul means Michael the Brave), honest, nothing gets by him, always gives a moralizing speech before the battle yada yada. Just think of the props and coordinating those guys on a hot day of summer in the middle of a swamp. The scale is huge and mind you, he actually used that amount of people, not the CGI tricks of "Gladiator". It started from the back, with the scattered extras forming the rear guard and gradually progressing towards the front. Imagine filming that! Nicoleascu shot from a helicopter. On that day, the all-mighty Ottoman Empire, in its heyday at that time, poured 120,000 soldiers into Wallachia to conquer it. I think the grandest scene of the movie is the one depicting the Turkish army in the marshes of Calugareni on August 13 1595. He is THE master! Back then, when a movie of such girth was made in Romania, everybody got into it, from the head of state to the Army, so sky was the limit. They don't come bigger than these and nobody can't take that away from Nicolaescu. But his accomplishment forged a landmark in Romanian history.įirst, it's the battle scenes. He had the guts to go to war with three empires (Turkish, Austrian and Polish) and found his death when he trusted one of them. It all sounds ferry tale-ish, but it isn't. In 1600 he bedazzled Europe by uniting Wallachia with Romanian-speaking Moldavia and Transylvania, for which he is hailed as Romania's national hero. Mihai Viteazul was a Romanian ruler that reigned in the small principality of Wallachia between 15.
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